The Best Tuna Salad Recipe: Easy, Healthy, And Delicious

Need a quick, healthy lunch recipe? This tuna salad recipe combines tuna with celery, mayo, and seasonings for a quick, easy, and super delicious lunch.

You'll LOVE This Classic Tuna Salad! Here's Why! 

It's Perfect! - Honestly, this is the most perfectly delicious tuna salad we've ever made! You're going to want to scoop it straight from the bowl as soon as it's made. It's so moreish!

Packed With Flavor - our tuna salad is bursting with delicious flavors and goes so well, either on bread, stuffed into baked potatoes or just stirred through some plain pasta.

Tuna Salad Recipe

Serves – 2

Prep Time – 10 minutes 

Total Time – 10 minutes 

Our Most Popular Alternative – Tuna And Sweetcorn

Equipment Needed 

• Chopping Board
• Vegetable Knife
• Mixing Bowl
• Tablespoon
• Teaspoon

Tuna Salad Ingredients 

Everything you need to make the BEST salad

• 2 x 5oz canned tuna (2 x 145g cans) - we use water-packed tuna
• 4 tablespoon mayonnaise
• 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
• ½ teaspoon dried Dill
• 2 sticks celery - thinly sliced, this adds a nice crunch.
• ½ red onion - finely chopped
• Handful of flat leaf parsley - finely chopped (chopped chives are good here too)
• Pinch salt
• Pinch ground black pepper

How To Make The BEST Tuna Salad 

You're going to LOVE how simple this salad is to throw together (and how delicious it is to eat)

Step One - throw the ingredients together

• Drain the tuna well, and then add all the ingredients to a large bowl.

Step Two - mix up the tuna salad

• Mix everything together well so that all the tuna fish and salad vegetables are coated in mayonnaise and seasonings. We like to mix using a fork, as it separates to the tuna better.

Step Three - serve your salad

• Serve up your salad - we can't resist scooping it from the bowl with cucumber!

How To Serve Tuna Salad - What Goes With Tuna Salad

Okay, so you can absolutely just eat this tuna fish salad straight from the bowl, but if you want more of a serving suggestion, see below for all our delicious ideas!

• Mix into rice for a tuna rice salad
• Stir it through plain cooked pasta as a tuna pasta salad - we usually add some extra fresh herbs.
• Stuff into warmed pita bread.
• Serve with lettuce leaves and s squeeze of fresh lemon juice.
• Pile it onto rye bread for the BEST tuna sandwich
• Make into lettuce wraps.
• Serve with crackers for scooping.
• Use it up in tuna melts - try our tuna melt bagel here
• Pack it into flour tortilla wraps with fresh green salad leaves.

Recipe Tips And Ingredient Swaps And Add-Ins 

Add some extra vegetables - you can add in any extra vegetables you like - try bell peppers, deseeded tomatoes, sweetcorn, chopped avocado, cucumber, shredded carrots, scallions (spring onions) or even tasty dill pickles or chopped cornichons.

Add a kick of heat - like your tuna salad to come with a kick? Throw in some chopped red chillies, sliced jalapeño or just a pinch of red pepper flakes.

Swap the mayo - you can swap the mayo for greek yogurt if you prefer.

How To Store Tuna Salad 

You can store the salad in an airtight container (not metallic) in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.

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How To Use Up Tuna Salad Leftovers

Use up your tuna in tuna melts, pasta, rice salad or piled onto rye toast.

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More Easy Canned Tuna Recipes To Make 

• Tuna Melt Bagel
• Tuna Pasta Bake
• Canned Tuna Pasta